Computer Language Popularity Trend

[Steve Holden]

Joe Marshall wrote:
> Xah Lee wrote:
> 
>>Computer Language Popularity Trend
>>
>>This page gives a visual report of computer languages's popularity, as
>>indicated by their traffic level in newsgroups. This is not a
>>comprehensive or fair survey, but does give some indications of
>>popularity trends.
> 
> 
> Suggestions:
>   Provide a log-scale plot.  You can clearly see that there are
> exponential trends in the data, these will turn into lines in
> log-scale.  You can also see that the plots get more widely distributed
> as the number of posts increase.  This too will be minimized in
> log-scale.
> 
>   Make the horizontal scale for the `scripting' languages the same as
> the others.  I know there isn't data out on the left of the graph, but
> it surprised me to see points out there until I noticed the scale
> change.
> 
>   For the Google trends, try looking for `java programming' or `written
> in python' to avoid picking up the island and the popular comedy troupe.
> 
I'd also encourage normalisation so the highest value on all scales is 
the same height. The absolute numbers are neither as interesting nor as 
significant as the trends.

regards
  Steve
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